Hands-on Microsoft® Project Fundamentals - 2 Days

• Understand project scheduling process
• Enter tasks, estimates, dependencies, constraints, resources and assignments based on PMBOK® process groups
• Optimize schedule to meet deadlines and budget restrictions
• Update the schedule, report and forecast dates and cost
• Understand and implement best practices

Benefits
This course presents a good insight on how to implement Microsoft Project to create, update and control your projects using scheduling best practices. You’ll learn how-to and when-to use specific features to create effective schedules. The course is mapped to PMBOK® process groups and explains the corresponding Microsoft Project specific scheduling activities within that process groups.

Target Audience
Project managers, team leaders, senior managers and anyone who uses or wishes to implement Microsoft Project on a day-today basis to schedule and manage a single project. Though it is aimed at new and intermediate users, even the proficient users will find it informative.

Hands on Training
Workshops are completed using Microsoft Project Professional 2007 but are also applicable to those using Project 2003.

• Configuring options and calendars
• Enter project scheduling information
• Determine and enter dependencies and constraints
• Enter resources with varying cost situations
• Cost budgeting and control
• Assign resources and fine tune assignments
• Set and maintain baseline
• Update schedule and optimize to get back on track
• Evaluate project
• Assessment exam

Initiating

• Project scheduling process
• Set up project environment using options and calendars
• Base project on templates and best practices
• Understanding the Microsoft Project interface
• Initiating best practices and checklists

Planning

• Determining and entering project phases, milestones, deliverables and tasks
• Estimation and behind the screen formula used by Microsoft Project
• Understanding, choosing and entering dependencies, constraints and deadlines
• Determine risks using the network diagram
• Determining and entering human and material resources and costs
• Using project, resource and task calendars
• Assigning and fine tuning resources within their availability
• Optimize and present the plan to stakeholders for approval
• Planning best practices and checklists

Executing

• Baseline the schedule
• Tracking strategies and updating schedule
• Taking corrective actions to bring project back on track
• Analyzing and revising the schedule
• Status reporting
• Executing best practices and checklists

Monitoring and controlling

• Project reporting strategies
• Progress reporting using reports and views
• Forecasting efforts, dates and costs
• Maintain and control baseline
• Monitoring and controlling best practices and checklists

Closing

• Summarizing the project
• Evaluating and conducting project end reviews and reports
• Archiving project data for historical information
• Closing best practices and checklists

Registration
Email id: ashishdhoke@projectingit.com
Contact number: +91 9833 105 388